Designing

This one is a no-brainer and pretty much a necessity for anyone doing anything on the internet. A Photoshop, HTML, CSS, and a PHP know-it-all is a wonderful addition to any affiliate marketing team. I’d be stuck in the deep end of the pool without mine. He’s much more efficient and cost effective than outsourcing stuff for $50 – 100 a lander.

Lead Generation

I just hired a new guy almost specifically for this task. You might have noticed someone posting on your blogs, or filling up some forums in what looked to be someone using my name. Sorry to say, but that was probably my employee. This used to be my task, and I could waste hours a day doing it. I can’t blame him, that he can’t come off sounding exactly like me, but it’s brought in a wonderful new amount of clients, forum members, and store consumers. The freed up time allows me to manage and launch more campaigns, and work on other projects outside of affiliate marketing.

I think I might have to hire ProfitAddiction for this job, though.

Research

I can set my employees out to find new targets for PPV, use tools to get general demographics and come up with the best demo mix for my campaigns pre-launch, and go hunting for competitor works. They’re also great for brainstorming other tasks and coming up with blog post ideas.

Other Boring Tasks

Affiliate marketing has a lot of boring and repetitive tasks we have to go through. Stick it to the employees. Uploading files, sifting through bad PPV targets, collecting sub-id reports, customer service, and all sorts of other things can be left to employees.

What do you use your employees for? Comment below, or join the private affiliate marketing forums for more in-depth talk about employee management.